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Editor, Times-Union:

The lame-duck Democrats just passed the Death Tax (Estate Tax) of 35 percent.

This seems to me a double tax, since taxes were already collected on all this money when it was first declared as income. Isn't this immoral, to steal from a dead person? Just because they're dead, can't protest, and can't vote, doesn't make it right. Don't they realize how many family farms and businesses will have to be sold in order to pay this tax? Government will close down, steal the farms, and put thousands of families out of work. Is there no shame? And how will this help the economy grow? And how can the unemployed pay taxes?

And now the Democrats plan to start running my healthcare, with death panels. Hmmm? With the new Death Tax, there is no incentive for them to keep me alive. This doesn't seem like the healthiest proposition for me. Didn't the Nazis have a national health care program, and a death tax, too? But this didn't work out so well for the Jews, or the physically handicapped, or the mentally slow, or the aged and others, too. Don't they know that life is sacred? (Oh that's right, they don't know. And what if they find out I'm not a Democrat? I'm doomed. Take me to a Catholic hospital.)

I just heard that Republicans get upset when you tell them a lie. Which one makes you upset? Are you searching for the truth, or another lie? R.C. Sproul said: "Without truth, everything is manipulation." I'm feeling manipulated. Do I have to spend my money to keep it? Do I have to buy health insurance? Isn't the government supposed to protect my life, liberty and property? Is this a government of liberty or socialism?

Russell Reahard

North Manchester